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pass for one of the Crow Genus ; the base, however, as in most of 

 the Thrushes, has a few hairs; plumage above the body rufous- 

 brown, darker on the back and wings ; and each feather has a pale 

 shaft; the back part of the head is lead-coloured, but the forehead, 

 to the middle of the crown, mixed brown and white ; the under parts 

 of the bird are paler than above, towards the vent pale, and clouded 

 with buff on the breast ; on each side, in the direction of the under 

 jaw, a broad streak of white, and on the breast a triangular patch of 

 the same; tail very short, only fourteen lines long, just peeping from 

 the rump, and the wings seem to be even with the end of it ; the legs 

 are long, reddish, bare above the knee, but the thighs short, claws 

 pale. The female is larger than the male. 



This singular species inhabits South America, chiefly Guiana and 

 Brasil, in the neighbourhood of large ant-hills, on the inhabitants 

 of which it chiefly feeds, as do several others, which, for the most 

 part, unite into flocks; but the singularity of this species is, that more 

 than one of it is seldom seen among the others, or at most a pair: 

 they generally keep on the ground, and appear less active than their 

 associates : the flesh is accounted good to eat. 



234— PILEATED THRUSH. 



Timalia pileata, Lin. Trans, xiii. 151. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Bill compressed, cultrated ; 

 nostrils in an oval hollow ; plumage brown, inclining to olive ; crown 

 chestnut ; chin and throat white, lineated with black, the shafts of 

 the feathers of the latter black ; belly dull testaceous ; quills brown, 

 tinged with chestnut on the edges ; wings short; the tail elongated, 

 brown, obsoletely fasciated with deeper brown ; legs stout ; hind 

 claw of double the size of those forward. 



Inhabits Java, and there called Dawit, or Gogo-stite; it differs 

 in some points from the general characters of the Thrush, but 

 scarcely sufficient to form a new Genus. 



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